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“I kind of know you're only as good as your last result.”
Andy Roddick
“Management by results is confusing special causes with common causes.”
W. Edwards Deming
“When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners on view in the courthouse, you are looking at 22 of the causes.”
Janet Flanner
“What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead”
Norbert Wiener
“Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from the failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so.”
Byron R. White
“What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.”
Germaine Greer
“It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.”
Jackson Pollock
“The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.”
C. Wright Mills
“In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations”
Claude Bernard
“Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.”
William Osler